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Go to Academy.com to shop for your Victorinox Swiss Army knife. This is the outside podcast. You ever hear a podcast so good, you ever hear a podcast so good you want to stand up and

clap both when it's over and at several points along the way. But you don't because you're

on a run or on the bus, listening earbuds in your own little world. You ever get choked up in public at a weird moment

to be emotional, like at the dog park or waiting to get on a flight?

If none of this describes you, I've got some listening to recommend.

It's an audible original called Alaska is the center of the universe, and the concept of the series

is so simple and so good, I've sort of become its personal ambassador.

If someone mentions any kind of connection to Alaska, I'll ask if they've heard it.

If the conversation veers towards indigenous

narratives or native stories, I'll bring it up. The series follows James Domic

Jr. an artist drummer and storyteller from Alaska. He's Inupak.

And he travels around talking to people from different tribes and villages,

asking them to share their traditional stories, what they grew up with.

A lot of them are about cryptids, magical, mythical creatures like Bigfoot and the

Kushika, which are like shape shifting otters who play deadly tricks on people at at sea.

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